The following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 2015. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.
Events
January January 15–19 – Major networks including ABS-CBN, PTV, TV5, GMA Network, and 9TV covered the first Papal visit to the country of Pope Francis. January 20 – Salmiya Makasait won the jackpot prize of one million pesos for the first time on Eat Bulaga!s revival segment from 2000 to 2006, Laban o Bawi. January 24 Noontime show Eat Bulaga! launches its own mobile application. Spyros was hailed as the first-ever PINASikat Grand Champion on It's Showtime, the grand finals of which were held at Ynares Center, Antipolo City.
February February 5 – HOOQ, a streaming service jointly owned by Singtel, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros., was launched and became available in the Philippines. February 6 - Balitanghali Weekend its celebrate 5th anniversary on Philippine television. February 11 – ABS-CBN Corporation formally launched its digital terrestrial television brand, ABS-CBN TV Plus, after almost 5 years of trial period. February 15 – Heart Evangelista and Senator Chiz Escudero tied the knot after their wedding rites in Balesin Island, Polillo, Quezon. February 23 – Milay Osiones won the jackpot prize of one million pesos on Eat Bulaga!s revival segment from 2000 to 2006, Laban o Bawi. February 26 – Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), on their 30th anniversary launches their newest informercial shown in different TV stations, on the responsible viewing of television. Couple Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo starred in the 30 sec. informercial. February 28 – The Game Channel, after almost 3 years on broadcasting, ceased on February 28, 2015. The channel space was taken over by My Movie Channel on March 1.
March March 1 – Jason Dy of Team Sarah was declared as the grand winner of the second season of The Voice of the Philippines held at the Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts World Manila. He was coached by Sarah Geronimo. March 9 – Sharon Cuneta formally returned to her original network, ABS-CBN, after a 4-year involvement with TV5. Cuneta's first major project for her return was Your Face Sounds Familiar. March 14: Vice Ganda's look-alike (Daniel Aliermo from Davao City) wins as Ultimate Kalokalike Face 3 on It's Showtime. The Ateneo de Manila University Lady Eagles clinched their back-to-back championship title in after defeating the De La Salle University Lady Spikers in game 2 of the UAAP Season 77 Women's Volleyball Finals held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Bay City, Pasay. This was the only team to have a perfect 16-0 record. March 16 – CNN Philippines was launched; prior to its launching the channel was known as 9TV. The rebranding was done after Turner Broadcasting System inked a partnership and licensing deal with Nine Media Corporation in October of last year. March 20 – Willie Revillame also embarked his return to GMA Network after signing their blocktime deal for the upcoming Sunday variety show, Wowowin. March 22 – Jack City was replaced by CT, thus becoming independent from its parent network. Upon launch, the channel broadened its programming focus by adding talk shows, sitcoms and men's lifestyle programs to its roster. March 23 – Bearwin Meily wins the top prize of 1 million pesos in the second revival of Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal. March 26 – Solar Entertainment Corporation announced its broadcast of the Fight of the Century between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 3, 2015. As stated in a press conference that day, it was broadcast on May 3 via delayed broadcast in three major television stations in the Philippines, ABS-CBN, TV5, and GMA Network (who waivered its exclusive contract with Solar to allow its multi-network coverage, but maintained its exclusive live broadcast on its radio division), with Solar Sports as its main content provider for this historic event in boxing.
April April 5 - Aksyon celebrated its 5th anniversary on Philippine television. April 10 – Comedian Ai-Ai de las Alas transferred and also embarked her return to GMA Network after 16-year involvement with ABS-CBN. April 17 – Ara Mina wins the top prize of 1 million pesos in the second revival of Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal.
May May 2 – Bobby Madubike of Abia, Nigeria was hailed as You're My Foreignoy 2015: Artistahin Talaga! Grand Winner on Eat Bulaga!. May 7 – Globe Telecom and The Walt Disney Company signed a multi-year partnership to access Disney's digital lifestyle experience for Globe users including video-on-demand, interactive content, promotions and other related services. May 14 – El Gamma Penumbra, a shadow dance troupe from Batangas who once joined Pilipinas Got Talent, won the first season of Asia's Got Talent aired on AXN Asia. Khusugtun of Mongolia and Gerphil Flores claimed their runner-up finishes. May 16 – University of San Carlos was hailed as Eat Bulaga!'s Pinoy Henyo High 2014-2015 Sayawan Grand Winner. May 18 – ABS-CBN announced a 5-year deal with the National Collegiate Athletic Association and ending its 3-year stint with TV5 to aired the games beginning with the 91st season on both free-to-air network, ABS-CBN Sports and Action, and on the cable and satellite channel, Balls and Balls HD May 22 – Philippines premiere cable channel for women, Lifestyle Network revealed a new logo and a new name will become Lifestyle. May 23 Xiamara Sophia Vigor (Mini Selena Gomez) hailed as the MiniMe season 2 grand winner on It's Showtime. St. Vincent College of Cabuyao was hailed as Eat Bulaga!'''s Pinoy Henyo High 2014-2015 Pautakan Grand Winner. May 27 – Iflix, a streaming service owned by Catcha Group, was launched and became available in the Philippines, alongside Malaysia. May 30 – Mommy Cherrie and Elche Isidro emerged as Eat Bulaga! #Kafez Grand Winner. May 31 – Angelia Gabrena Ong, of Manila was hailed as the 2015 Miss Philippines Earth, on its Grand Coronation Night that held at the Mall of Asia Arena.
June June 7 – Comedian Melai Cantiveros of General Santos (impersonated as Miley Cyrus) was named the first grand winner of Your Face Sounds Familiar: Season 1 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts World Manila. June 15–16 – Former Solar News anchorwomen Nancy Irlanda and Claire Celdran both back to their respective networks, Nancy is with ANC and Claire for CNN Philippines.
July July 1 My Movie Channel ceased broadcasting. The closure was announced by Solar a day before. Jennylyn Mercado was crowned for the first time as the FHM's sexiest woman for 2015. Andrea Torres, Ellen Adarna, Sam Pinto, Solenn Heussaff, were also part of the Top 5. July 12 – Kabayan celebrated its 5th anniversary on Philippine television. July 16 – The Phenomenal "KalyeSerye" (aired over Juan for All, All for Juan segment of Eat Bulaga) featuring the love story of Alden (played by Alden Richards) and Yaya Dub (played by Maine Mendoza) collectively known as "AlDub" and the intervention of Lola Nidora (played by Wally Bayola) had gathered high ratings and trending topics for EB, up against rival It's Showtime which Ryan Rems Sarita became part of the regular cast after he won the Funny Juan competition.
August August 3 – Bernadette Sembrano was named as the permanent anchor replacement of Korina Sanchez, as rejoins Ted Failon and Noli de Castro on TV Patrol. August 8 – Ryan Rems Sarita was hailed as the Funny One grand winner on It's Showtime. August 14 – Bela Padilla and Joyce Bernal wins the top prize of 1 million pesos in the second revival of Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal. August 26 – ABS-CBN Corporation president and CEO Charo Santos-Concio said that she would chair the Gala of the 43rd International Emmy Awards on November 23 in New York City. Actor Piolo Pascual accompanied her in the gala and represented one award. August 29 – Kenneth Medrano was hailed as Eat Bulaga!s That's My Bae grand winner. August 30 – Elha Nympha, coached by Bamboo Mañalac, won the second season of The Voice Kids held at the Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts World Manila.
September September 7 – Kaye Abad and Nikki Valdez wins the top prize of 1 million pesos in the second revival of Kapamilya, Deal or No Deal. September 11 – TV5 Entertainment Head Wilma Galvante, formally left the station, as she formed a content provider company that produced TV shows on TV5, and other TV channels. September 16 – After almost 3 years ago on broadcasting, TeleAsia Filipino and TeleAsia Chinese ceased broadcasting. The closure was announced by My Pinoy TV Broadband Inc. a day before.
October October 3 – ABS-CBN launched a high-definition feed on Sky Cable and other cable and satellite providers. The network's newscasts and the yearly 7 Last Words special during Holy Week continued to broadcast in standard definition format until March 2018 as well as some selected movies and the Saturday morning asianovela Angel Wings also continued in standard definition format. October 5 – TV5 and Cignal Digital TV inked a deal with Bloomberg for the launching of Bloomberg TV Philippines, a 24/7 English business news channel. October 10 – Jay-R was hailed as COC - Clash of Celebrities grand winner on It's Showtime. October 14 – TV5 announced the appointment of VIVA CEO Vic Del Rosario Jr. as their network's chief entertainment strategist.
October 17 – Team Dyosa was hailed as Lip Swak Challenge grand winner on It's Showtime held at Hoops Dome, Cebu. October 24 Eat Bulaga! held a benefit concert dubbed as "Sa Tamang Panahon" ("In the Right Time") at the Philippine Arena to raise funds for libraries in certain schools in the Philippines. With sold out tickets, the concert highlights the love team of Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards (collectively known as AlDub in the Kalyeserye portion of Eat Bulaga!) and the Twitter hashtag #ALDubEBTamangPanahon made 41 million tweets becoming the most tweeted event in the world for 2015. Team Vice, Jugs and Teddy was hailed as It's Showtimes sixth anniversary (Magpasikat 2015: Happy ANIMversary!) champion. October 26 - ANC went into a major overhaul in its broadcast design, including the refreshed logo and the red-blue colored title cards for the channel's major newscasts. As part of the relaunch, the channel opened a new studio in 8 Rockwell in Rockwell Center in Makati, aside from their studio and newsroom in Quezon City. October 29 - The Letran Knights clinched the NCAA Season 91 men's basketball title after defeating their archrivals San Beda Red Lions 2–1 in winner take-all game 3 of the best-of-three finals series held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Bay City, Pasay. This was their 17th basketball championship title since they last won after 10 years. October 31 Names Going Wild was hailed as Halo Halloween Grand Champion on It's Showtime. Ma. Katherine "Kit" Cunanan named as the grand winner of It's Showtimes That's My Tomboy Astig 2, a segment dedicated to lesbians.
November November 8 – Jimboy Martin and Miho Nishida were both crowned as the Big Winners of the recently concluded Pinoy Big Brother: 737. The season's big night was held at Albay Astrodome in Legazpi, Albay. November 12 – ABS-CBN launches the Christmas song Thank You For The Love, after the news program TV Patrol. November 18 – Celestial Tiger Entertainment has teamed with Viva Communications to create Celestial Movies Pinoy, a localized Philippines version of CTE's Chinese film channel Celestial Movies.
December December 2 – The FEU Tamaraws clinched the UAAP Season 78 men's basketball title after defeating the UST Growling Tigers 2–1 in winner take-all game 3 of the best-of-three finals series held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Bay City, Pasay. This was their 20th basketball championship title since they last won after 10 years.